Hello Freenet

If you don’t know what freenet is, this post won’t make much sense to you. If you do know, chances are that you are reading this post from freenet.

I have been using freenet for a long time, but haven’t really inserted content before. Some of you may ‘know’ me as sbc in the irc channel on freenode.

Even though it might not be original content I have chosen to mirror my blog to freenet, as it seems content is the only real thing non-coders can help out with. I’m still trying to figure out if I should use wget instead of httrack, so there might be a few more tweaks coming up. For inserting I’m using PyFCP. I still don’t quite grasp the whole key thing fully yet. Hopefully I will soon. You should be able to reach my blog on freenet at

USK@jBURIYscwTP6akmRCfykvkcVc4bHQQICv75UwuwIh5k,W5gehPmNBoXUDM8Ly35mf~mMOtaJqy00XIar29GfSHg,AQABAAE/Blog/2/and as always on the real net at
http://compadre.dk/blog/

Malmö

Joe havde inviteret til fest i Malmö lørdag aften, og det takkede jeg jo ikke nej til. Så der blev drukket spiritus og så videre i byen – og mit tøj lugter ikke af røg i dag… er der noget med at de har rygeforbud på svenske beværtninger?

Ellers har jeg lige været ude og løbe med Thomas og Rasmus. Det blev lige planlagt i sidste øjeblik, men selvom det regnede var det rigtig godt at komme ud og få bevæget sig og få noget frisk luft.

First post / last post

I have been quite happy with using Livejournal for my blogging so far, but have now decided to give WordPress a try. I have been working with it some time ago, but got away from it again.

Now I have WordPress running at my new web provider and after a lot (to many?) point’n’clicks I got all my old blog entrys transfered. So the new adress for my blog will now be http://compadre.dk/blog/, and this is the last blog entry on my old blog – but the first (real) one at the new one…
I hope WordPress lives up to all the good things I have heard about it.

Nerd mode – enabled

Søren har lovet at passe på katten (og huset?), mens hans forældre er ude og rejse, og jeg er taget med for at “hjælpe” ham. Dvs. et par dage med intenst druk, sol, grill, video og computer-nørden.

Jeg har allerede brugt tiden på, bl.a. at kigge på VMwares nye gratis server og så har jeg endelig fået skiftet min tidligere udbyder, dht ud med unoeuro. Selvom jeg måske ikke bryder mig meget om deres navn håber jeg på at blive lidt mere tilfreds med deres service. Redelegeringen af name-servers er vist stadig i gang som jeg skriver dette, men nu er det vist bare et spørgsmål om tid. Jeg har også gået og overvejet at flytte min blog fra livejournal til mit eget domæne, men nu må vi se om jeg får taget mig sammen.

På det lidt mindre nørdede plan så tager søren og jeg nok til stranden snarest – vejret er jo lige til det! (Selvom det nu også er rart at side i en have med en trådlås bærbar og nørde og nyde livet.

Sommer er nu den bedste tid på året…

Amazing Grace

Yesterday was fourth of July, the American Independence Day. Not really a holiday I have ever celebrated in the past, but yesterday I attended two (different) celebrations of the day.

The first was a political manifestation. I joined over 300 others outside the Ministry of Defence, located at Holmens Kanal. There we put on orange jumpsuits, black hoods and chains around feet and hands. Then we went in one long line – three by three – to the American Embassy in complete silence (except for the rattling of the chains). Upon arrival we song the Amazing Grace, and then went our separate ways. Even though there were a whole bunch of reporters with cameras, I have only been able to find very shallow covering of the event – if I do manage to find more pictures or general news items about it, I will link it here later. For now, take a quick look here for a single picture.

http://www.localeyes.dk/article3262.html

So, with the political manifestation of the day taken care of I moved on to Amager for a more traditional celebration. We were just about 14 people, grilling (or do you call it barbecuing in the states?), drinking beer and having a good time.

I got home late’ish, slept until noon and now I should be just about ready to start my day… (being on holidays sure is sweet!)